El Presidunce

The Presidunce continues his wild and whacky days playing fiddle while the rest of the world burns to the ground. This week he was complaining that immigrants should learn to sing the national anthem in English only - despite the fact that he can hardly speak English himself. The journalist Greg Palast dug up this great quote to show the Presidunce knows exactly what he is talking about - even if the rest of us don't...

"Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big costdrivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example,is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to what has been promised. DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE TO YOU? IT'S KIND OF MUDDLED. Look, there's a series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. This is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- that that growth is affect, it will help on the red."

Makes perfect sense doesn't it? I still don't know why the Shrub is getting his knickers in a twist anyway, apparently he wasn't too hesitant about singing it in Spanish himself when he needed the Latino vote down in Texas.

The first line of The Star Bungled Spanner is "Jose, can you see?" after all...........